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| Recruiting the Best With Ethics in Mind |
 How can a successful leader recruit honest and talented employees? A leader will only be successful if he or she projects a model of how talent and honesty can work together in the company.
-- By David Gebler
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| In the News |
Financial Execs Call SOX 'Good Investment'
Individual accountability, fraud safeguards, error reduction and board empowerment are all seen as benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley; however, an overwhelming majority of executives say Congress should revisit the legislation.
Tax Practitioners Face New Ethical Standards
As part of an ongoing effort to improve ethical standards for tax professionals and to curb abusive tax avoidance transactions, the IRS issued final regulations amending Treasury Department Circular 230.
Two Top Execs at Fannie Mae Forced Out
The chief executive and top financial officer at mortgage giant Fannie Mae were forced out of the company as the nation's second largest financial institution struggled to deal with revelations of serious financial reporting problems.
PCAOB Proposes Limits on Tax Services
Accounting overseers proposed limits on the tax services that auditors may provide to clients in an effort to stop conflicts such as those that led to the marketing of abusive corporate tax shelters.
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| Spotlight |
| Codes of Business Conduct |
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 A dynamic code of business conduct is a critical keystone for an ethical culture. It's the foundation of your Integrity Vision. Working Values offers interactive codes with affirmations, and templates to create customized codes that reflect your company's unique culture. We can turn your existing code from a legal document to a learning and communication tool.  Contact us for details.
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About Working Values
Working Values Ltd., a SmartPros company, has been a proponent of the truly ethical workplace, promoting values-based ethics since its founding in 1993. Working Values contends that while articulation of standards can set goals, standards alone cannot change behaviors. To achieve this necessary change and ensure systems that will propagate continuing ethical behavior, companies must evolve from rules-based – or end-result focused – ethics to values-based ethics, where ethics as an ongoing process, with an emphasis on an integrity-based control environment.
Working Values helps organizations change employee behavior through the Integrity Alignment Process and Integrity Toolkit. The Integrity Alignment Process is a comprehensive integrity assessment and planning process. One of the key elements of the Integrity Alignment Process is the Integrity Toolkit, which provides a company's leaders with tools for building comprehensive integrity programs. The Toolkit includes corporate communications templates, training and development programs for employees, managers, and senior leaders, and guidance on business process improvement. Through these unique offerings, Working Values serves as an integrity coach to its clients, helping them to narrow their Behavior-Standards Gap.
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